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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy;

/**
 * ByteArrayRef stores a reference to a byte array.
 * 
 * The LazyObject hierarchy uses a reference to a single ByteArrayRef, so that
 * it's much faster to switch to the next row and release the reference to the
 * old row (so that the system can do garbage collection if needed).
 */
public class ByteArrayRef {

  /**
   * Stores the actual data.
   */
  byte[] data;

  public byte[] getData() {
    return data;
  }

  public void setData(byte[] data) {
    this.data = data;
  }

}
